Responding to the broadening of interest in Japanese culture beyond specialist studies, the encyclopedia is intended as an accessible reference...

The Politics of Agriculture in Japan...

Nearly a half century after Japan opened its doors to Western knowledge, intellectual discourse there took a sharp turn inward......

How do ordinary people respond to prolonged terror? The convulsion of Japan's "Warring States" period between 1467 and 1568 destroyed...

Founded in 1913 as a counterpart to the all-male Kabuki theater, the all-female Takarazuka Revue is world-famous today for its...

When did Japan take the plunge into industrialization? What factors contributed to modernizing the nation? Focusing on the last 300...

In this first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria, Louise Young offers an incisive examination of the...

The Ming dynasty was the last great Chinese dynasty before the Manchu conquest in 1644......

Representing an unprecedented collaboration among international scholars from Asia, Europe, and the United States, this volume rewrites the history of...

Health care in contemporary Japan - a modern industrial state with high technology, but a distinctly non-Western cultural tradition -...

Japan is the Asian seat of postmodern consumer society. Describing it as such, Dolore P......

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Japanese Business Culture and Practices: A Guide to Twenty-First Century Japanese Business...

Seventeen scholars from varying fields here consider the implications of Confucian concerns--self-cultivation, regulation of the family, social civility, moral education,...

Akira Iriye examines the Japanese-American war for the first time from the cultural perspectives of both countries, arguing that it...

The Culture of the Meiji Period...

One of the leading twentieth-century works on Zen, this book is a valuable source for those wishing to understand Zen...

18th Century Japan; Culture and Society...

Combines anthropological descriptions with historical criticism, situates the Zen arts firmly within contemporary critical discourses about cultural representations, and suggests...

Japanese Art & Culture...

Japanese Culture And Communication: Critical Cultural Analysis...

Why Are The Japanese Non-religious?: Japanese Spirituality: Being Non-religious In A Religious Culture...

Japan Pop: Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture...

Japan Pop!: Inside The World Of Japanese Popular Culture...

The Clash Of Economic Cultures: Japanese Bankers In The City Of London...

This is the first full-length study in English of Japan's folk performing arts covering such topics as the different categories...

The Culture of Japan As Seen Through Its Leisure...

Both Japan and Germany have long traditions of militarism, culminating in the two countries' aggressive actions in World War II......

Introduction To Japanese Culture provides a compact guide to aspect Japan that often puzzles the outside observer......

The Art and Culture of Japan...

Every chapters offers insights into one aspect or other of contemporary Japanese life......

Edo Culture is a thoroughly original and sensitive reading of a vast range of source materials, written and otherwise......

Contemporary Japan & Popular Culture...

Japan's Competing Modernities: Issues in Culture and Democracy, 1900-1930...

Japanese Culture...

Adult Manga looks at the rise and fall of Japan's mammoth comic industry since the 1960s......

Hands-on Culture Of Japan...

The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture...

The Japanese Have a Word for It: The Complete Guide to Japanese Thought & Culture...

The Japanese Art of War: Understanding the Culture of Strategy...

Japan conjures up visions of ancient lands with temples and rock gardens--and modern cities and high-tech bullet trains......

A Lateral View: Essays On Culture And Style In Contemporary Japan...

Farmers Of Forty Centuries Or Permanent Agriculture In China, Korea And Japan...

Whether for a long-term stay or a lazy weekend, Culture Shock! Japan provides a fun-filled crash-course on etiquette do's and...

  You may be on a business trip or on the adventure of a lifetime; either way, you’ll want Culture...

Whether your customers are traveling in luxury or with just a pack on their back, it's important that they have...

Whether you are conducting business, traveling for pleasure, or even relocating abroad, one mistake with customs or etiquette can leave...

From one of the most influential books ever written on Zen's influence on Japan One of the leading twentieth-century works...

Since the 1960s, Japanese popular culture has enjoyed an incredible boom......

  This engrossing anthology is a collection of articles culled from Viz’s monthly magazine Pulp: Manga for Grownups......

In this penetrating analysis of a little-explored area of Japanese cultural history, Timon Screech reassesses the career of the chief...

The Rice-paper Ceiling: Breaking Through Japanese Corporate Culture...

Through his job of placing the leading European men and women in their jobs, John Viney understands their motivation and...

Japan: Doing Business In A Unique Culture...

Appreciations Of Japanese Culture...

The Empire Of Signs. Semiotic Essays On Japanese Culture. Foundations Of Semiotics...

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